Famous Children in Movies

Some celebrity kids are well on their way to becoming famous in their own right. See which parent performers produced child movie stars.

There’s no shortage of celebrity kids on reality TV shows, from Mason Disick on Keeping Up with the Kardashians (to name just one of his mom Kourtney’s many series), to Hank Baskett IV on Kendra and Kendra on Top, to the ever-increasing Spelling-McDermott clan on Tori & Dean: Inn Love. But not all famous children play themselves on screen. Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor’s Ella and Teri Hatcher’s Emerson have done voice work for cartoons (in Megamind and Coraline, respectively), and others have stolen the show in leading and supporting spots in live-action films. Click through to see the most famous children in movies.

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Jaden and Willow Smith

The son and daughter of Hollywood power couple Will and Jada have almost as busy schedules as their parents! Since playing daddy’s little girl (literally — Will was her on-screen pop) in I Am Legend in 2007, Willow’s career has taken a more musical turn with her 2010 single “Whip My Hair” going platinum. Big brother Jaden, though, is still acting away. After warming hearts as Will’s on-screen son in The Pursuit of Happyness, he starred in The Karate Kid remake in 2010. Next up: After Earth, an M. Night Shyamalan sci-fi flick also featuring (who else?) Dad Will.

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Maude and Iris Apatow

Director/producer Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann have worked together on hit films like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Funny People. Their greatest collaboration? Their two girls, budding stars Maude and Iris. They’ve appeared as daughters to their real-life mom Leslie in Funny People, and they’re reprising their Knocked Up roles as precocious sisters in the December 2012 film This Is 40, which again stars their mom as, well, their mom, and Paul Rudd as their on-screen dad.

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Sadie and Sunny Sandler

Another set of sisters making cameos in their dad’s movies, Adam Sandler’s lookalike daughters have quite the acting resumes at just six and three. The littlest, Sunny, has appeared in Grown Ups, Just Go with It, Jack and Jill, and That’s My Boy, while big sister Sadie has done the same flicks, plus 2008’s Bedtime Stories. They’ll both be back in 2013’s Grown Ups 2, where their characters’ first names will again match their real-life monikers. Although Adam won’t be playing their dad, their mom, Jackie, will once more be their on-screen mother, named, you guessed it, Jackie.

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Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

Yes, Brad and Angelina’s first biological child has already made her film debut, and in an Oscar-winning movie, no less. In 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Shiloh reportedly stood in to play leading actress Cate Blanchett as a young child when the Jolie-Pitt twins, who were originally hired for the role, started fussing. Dad Brad suggested then-toddler Shiloh for the part because of her laid-back behavior. It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance, but even-tempered Shiloh saved the day on the New Orleans set.

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Ella Bleu Travolta

Unlike other child movie stars, Kelly Preston and John Travolta’s only daughter didn’t play either parent’s kid in 2009’s Old Dogs. She did, however, play Emily, one-half of a set of boy-girl twins that John, along with on-screen buddy Robin Williams, unexpectedly becomes responsible for in the flick. Ella will further hone her acting chops for the 2013 movie, Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father, as Angel Gotti, to Kelly’s Victoria Gotti and John’s John Gotti, Sr. It doesn’t look like Ella’s baby brother Benjamin will join the (crime) family just yet.

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Connor Cruise

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s adopted son Connor doesn't just follow in his dad's footsteps when they run together. When Will Smith needed a younger version of himself in 2008’s Seven Pounds, he didn’t call upon any of his children — it was Connor who filled the role of young Ben. The acting bug hasn’t stopped biting Connor. He’ll be back on the silver screen in Red Dawn, about teens who fight off a North Korean attack, due out in late 2012. As of now, his big sister Isabella and little half-sister Suri have stayed off the big screen.

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Rumer, Scout, and Talullah Willis

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’s brood have long been super starlets. The oldest, Rumer, debuted in 1995’s Now and Then, and went on to appear in Mom’s Striptease, Dad’s Hostage, and The House Bunny, among other films and TV shows. She’ll be in two more movies set to release in 2013. The younger Willis sisters first played the same part in the same movie: Pearl at different ages in Mom’s The Scarlet Letter. But they can thank Dad for their other roles in Bandits, Breakfast of Champions, and The Whole Ten Yards.

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